Odd EEC-IV Adapter Found between ECU and 60 Pin Harness

AeroCoupe

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Any of you guys know what this is?



One of the members found it between the EEC-IV and the 60 pin harness and I have no idea what it is so if you do chime in here (see Post #17):

Engine - Spout connector (Code 18)

Do I need the spout connector to daily this thing? I set the timing and it starts without issue but as soon as I plug it the spout connector it won't run at all. I may fix it in the future but for now I just want to drive it. Is it okay to drive it without the spout connector?

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90sickfox

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Never seem that before.

 

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Looks like a breakout box for doing ECU and ECU system diagnostics together..

If you can get a picture of the other side I can be absolutely sure...............

 

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3 resistors and a jumper. No idea what pins those are but I'm starting to wonder if it might have been a part of a mass air conversion.

Should chase down the wires and see what's going on there.

From the conversion instructions:

a. The Power (+) wire from the MAF meter harness needs to be spliced into the existing red wire in position #37 of the EEC connector.
b. The Ground (-) wire from the MAF meter harness needs to be spliced into the existing black/green wire in position #40 or #60 of the EEC connector.
c. The Signal (-) wire from the MAF meter harness needs an EEC pin which then gets inserted into position #9 of the EEC connector.
d. The Signal (+) wire from the MAF meter harness needs an EEC pin which then gets inserted into position #50 of the EEC connector.

 

AeroCoupe

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fordjunky (user on this board) posted up over on the other thread with this so pretty much solved the question.

 

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Yeah... those things are junk.

 

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https://giphy.com/11JbaLzOXsg6Fq

 

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AeroCoupe

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It was the tits back in the day before anyone knew anything about tuning. Hell, I am 100% guilty of getting a canned tune for my '95 4.6L T-Bird and about the only thing that chip did was remove the speed limiter...total waste of money otherwise.

 

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Back in the day it was the only thing around. I remember back in the day folks were ordering these chips out of MM&FF to put on their car.

I was maybe 18-20 around that time and too broke to afford the $400 or so they cost back then.

 

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That museum thing cracked me up, lol, wasn't there another one called Hypertech back then too? I remember they were always on Muscle Mustangs and fast forss along with the other gimmicks.

 

AeroCoupe

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Oh man...Superchips for the win!

 

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yeah much has advanced since the 90s in the EFI arena

The worse part about that whole contraption is that it's only worth a connector and about 30 cents worth of resistors which was about equal to 8 cents back then. They made a fortune selling them for what they did ~100x the cost.